This #Mississippi Hospital Transfers Some Patients to Jail to Await #MentalHealth Treatment
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Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto doesn’t have a psychiatric unit, so it sends patients elsewhere for mental health treatment.

When publicly funded facilities are full, some patients go to jail to wait for help.

One doctor said that’s “unthinkable.”

#News #Health #Healthcare #Hospital #CriminalJustice #Law

propublica.org/article/baptist…

Some Baptist-Desoto Patients Go to Jail to Await Mental Health Treatment

Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto has no psychiatric unit, so some patients go to jail to await publicly funded mental health treatment.

^ProPublica